The Atlantic has calculated the net worth of every US president in today’s dollars, shedding an interesting perspective on Obama’s wealth: he’s positively poor compared to the likes of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, JFK and Lyndon Johnson.

Barack Obama is well known as a “reader” — but he’s hardly the first US President to bury his nose in a book: Nixon loved Tolstoy, Reagen studied the ideas of Milton Friedman, and Clinton liked the “cheap thrill” of a mystery novel.

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is writing a book about the history of sex in the White House, and Gawker has the whole 54-page proposal. “How did this president from Pennsylvania become so proslavery? In two words: Gay Love.”

Future US presidents are all kind, hard working students, right? Slate compares what children’s books say about past US presidents to the adult biographies. Never let the truth get in the way of an illustrated story.